Month: October 2014

1.10.14

£1 million in legal costs paid out of public funds to private prosecutor

In R (Virgin Media Ltd) v Zinga [2014] EWCA 1823 the Court of Appeal, presided over by the Lord Chief Justice, was asked to consider the quantum of costs payable to the private prosecutor in connection with an appeal against a confiscation order. These costs are payable from the public purse out of ‘central funds’…